Barbarous hellhounds CRADLE OF FILTH have released a music video for the track "Blackest Magick In Practice" andf you can check it out now on KNAC.COM right HERE. The clip was directed by Sam Scott-Hunter and the song is taken from the group's latest tome of horror and romance, Hammer Of The Witches.

Comments the director:

"There’s dark madness in this video. "Blackest Magick In Practice" is a deeply tragic tale of lost love. It’s the grief stricken insanity of trying to bring back that loved one from the dead; desperately trying to hold onto that person who’s gone, even if that leads down a dark and gruesome path. I don’t want to give it all away, but I will say that the hardest part of the production was getting hold of a human ear.

I wanted to convey the power of the band too, in amongst the romance, madness and magick. Behind the imagery of the lyrics is a great and powerful metal band of amazing musicians, and I hope people can feel the intensity of the band when they watch this. It is intense viewing. There should be a bit of madness in the video, because there’s madness in this song."

CRADLE OF FILTH will return to North America in early 2016 with the "Inquisitional Torture" tour. Joining them will be NE OBLIVISCARIS and BUTCHER BABIES as support. Tickets are now available here: http://cncrt.ly/7Ph

CRADLE OF FILTH, BUTCHER BABIES, NE OBLIVISCARIS

1.26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts

1.27 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues

1.28 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage

1.29 - Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz

1.31 - Charlotte, NC @ Filmore Charlotte

2.1 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade - Heaven

2.2 - Orlando, FL @ Venue 578

2.3 - St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theater

2.9 - Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theater

2.10 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues

2.11 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues

2.12 - San Antonio, TX @ The Aztec Theater

2.14 - Eaglewood, CO @ Gothic Theater

2.15 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex

2.17 - Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon

2.18 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

2.20 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades

2.21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

2.23 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

2.29 - Ringle, WI @ Q and Z Expo Center

3.1 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues

3.2 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's

3.3 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues

3.5 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall

3.6 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theater

3.7 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theater

3.8 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall

CRADLE OF FILTH's latest album, Hammer Of The Witches, was brought to fruition in Britain's Witch County, in darkest rural Suffolk at the reputedly haunted Grindstone Studios. The album's title is named after the Malleus Maleficarum, a medieval document of guidelines regarding the persecution and torture of witches - but CRADLE OF FILTH's title version is more retributory: It's the Hammer Of The Witches; the hammer is in the witches' hands and it's payback time.